I have a .bin image file with me that I want to mount on my Mac. How can I do it?
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".bin on a Mac" sounds like MacBinary.
I believe Stuffit Expander can extract these for you.
Is this the .bin half of a "bin/cue" pair, meaning it's part of a CD-ROM, VCD, or DVD-ROM image? If you search for things like "bin/cue Mac", you'll find instructions for converting them and/or mounting them. Apparently a lot of people like to use Roxio Toast for this, although it can also be done with the open-source "BinChunker" (bchunk) tool. Some have had success just renaming the .bin to .iso. Apparently the main difference between a bin/cue disk image .bin file and a .iso file is that the .bin still has the per-sector parity/redundancy/checksum information that the original optical disc format would've used, but typically .iso's don't have all that extra data. Apparently some .iso handlers are able to ignore that.
I can't open it with Stuffit Expander. Use Zipeg, it works.
